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Ok, reading through this thread, I have to admit: I miss the mighty Led Zeppelin. They were a staple before AWATT and now I'm very tempted to put them back on the playlist!!

 

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Even though LZ hasn't been in heavy rotation for me since high school there will always be a time when I need to hear Dazed & Confused or esp. live Whole Lotta Love. :rock

 

An older cousin of mine let me borrow LZ 1&2 when they came out..I was literally in 1st/2nd grade...had no clue but I knew I loved that shit! Nice to have a mentor :thumbup

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45 minute Dark Star :)

5/11/72 & 12/6/73....seriously, any fan of improvisational music NEEDS these tapes!

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Too many great ones already mentioned, but here are some new entries:

 

My Morning Jacket - Dondante

Weezer - Only in Dreams

Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

Allman Brothers - Whipping Post

Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry

Pearl Jam - Release

Gillian Welch - I Dream a Highway

GnR - Estranged

Janis Joplin - Ball & Chain

Lynryd Skynryd - Free Bird

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

 

Just missing the cut:

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (6:53)

Radiohead - Paranoid Android (this feels longer than 6:25)

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Sister Ray- The Velvet Underground

 

Desolation Row- Bob Dylan

 

So What!- Miles Davis

 

Marquee Moon- Television

 

Pigs- Pink Floyd

 

Down By The River- Neil Young

 

Spiders (Kidsmoke)- Wilco

 

Take The Long Way- Jim O'Rourke (off of his amazing 1997 album "Bad Timing")

 

I Heard You Looking- Yo La Teng

 

Hallo Gallo- Neu!

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absolutely no way I can read this whole thread, but here my 2 cents

 

Wilco - Spiders/Kidsmoke

Yo la Tengo - Night Falls on Hoboken

Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline, Anamorphose, Metronomic Underground

Peter Gabriel/Genesis- The Fountain of Salmacis, The Musical Box, Cinema Show

Genesis- Duke's Travels, Dodo/Lurker, Home By the Sea I & II

Yes- Yours is No Disgrace, Perpetual Change, Heart of the Sunrise, And You and I

Grateful Dead - That's It for the Other One

Bob Dylan - Desolation Row

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

Sonic Youth- The Diamond Sea, Stones, Dripping Dream

Neil Young- Cortez, Cowgirl, Down by The River, Grandpa's Interview

Dave Mathews Band - The Dreaming Tree

Phish - Guyute, The Divided Sky, Fluffhead, Waves, Seven Below

 

many others

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Sorting my iTunes in descending order of Time I found these goodies:

 

Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground (In a letter where he laments the state of music in the mid-70s, Hunter Thompson remarked this was the best piece of music to come out that decade.)

Gillian Welch - I Dream a Highway

Phish - First Tube* / Divided Sky / You Enjoy Myself (*not Phish but Trey Anastasio Band)

Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma

Steely Dan - Deacon Blues

Stevie Wonder - Living for the City

Wilco - IATTBYH (6:58)

 

Great thread! :cheers

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Phish - Guyute, The Divided Sky, Fluffhead, Waves, Seven Below

These guys really deserve mention.I know folks love to hate 'em,but I think much of the negativity is more directed at the stereotypical 'head' than the music.

 

others:Runaway Jim,Reba,Run Like An Antelope & especially David Bowie :worship

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Did anyone mention Doctor Jimmy, from Quadrophenia? Or what about the entire Tommy album (Underture if not)? Perhaps a new thread for favorite "concept" album?

 

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Underture is perhaps my favorite piece of Who music...if that riff doesn't quicken your pulse rate,you're a droid or something..

I should search the Archives & find the Peter Fucking Townshend appreciation thread..if there isn't one there should be :rock

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I imagine Townsend transformed the lives of many of us here.

 

When I was a wee lad, listening to Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Chicago, and Elton John, my older brother was playing drums to Who's Next in the next room. It took me a while to mature in my rock tastes, but eventually I did come around... :lol

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I imagine Townsend transformed the lives of many of us here.

Along with Garcia,in his prime Townshend was a shining example of why Rock was so damn important.One of the best interviews around,he could pontificate at length on an endless variety of subjects..not least of which would be the fervent belief in the power of rock-n-roll to transport the self from the mundane to a higher plane of conciousness where real positive social change could occur.

 

Christ that's why I get so disturbed at seeing his songs being used to sell shit I don't need...Jeff pleeeze don't let this happen to what you've created...life is long,ya know??

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Along with Garcia,in his prime Townshend was a shining example of why Rock was so damn important.One of the best interviews around,he could pontificate at length on an endless variety of subjects..not least of which would be the fervent belief in the power of rock-n-roll to transport the self from the mundane to a higher plane of conciousness where real positive social change could occur.

 

I remember that Rolling Stone cover with his ear bleeding. Classic!

 

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Desolation Row is my favorite Dylan song...ever.

 

Sufjan Stevens-Come On Feel The Illinoise!!

The Polyphonic Spree-Section 11

Bright Eyes-Lets Not Shit Are Selves (I think we all had a fleeting Bright Eyes Obsesion)

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She sounded so hot when I was a kid...I pictured Laugh-In era Goldie Hawn...although it was probably Yoko?

unfotunately yes I think so..but now Goldie...damn she's old enuff to be my mom & she still looks good :hmm

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